Disasters - Names		Disasters - Names

Date:	16th May 1934
Colliery:	Deaf Hill
Cause:	Fall of Stone
Lives Lost:	2

Another accident causing the deaths of two persons occurred at Deaf Hill Colliery, Durham. They were sitting in front of the tailgate pack at a roadhead on a longwall machine-cut conveyor face in a seam 2 ft. 6 in. thick. A large fall of the blue shale roof came away from a hitch leader and a concealed slip over the pack, canting out four planks or straps and several props and headtrees.

Source:

1934 Mines Inspectors Report

	Gaskell, Edward, aged 22, Cleaner Out, killed by a fall of stone, single man, of Lord Street, Trimdon, Buried: St. Paul's Churchyard, Trimdon Station
	Todd, Ambrose, aged 25, Stoneman, killed by a fall of stone, married, of Council Houses, Deaf Hil, Buried: St. Paul's Churchyard, Trimdon Station
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21 May 1934

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